THE REAL COST MEASURE 2021
Bay Area Interactive Report
United Way Bay Area The Real Cost Measure in California 2021
The Real Cost Measure (RCM) estimates the amount of income required to meet basic needs (the “Real Cost Budget”) for a given household type in a specific community. The Real Cost Measure builds a bare-bones budget that reflects constrained yet reasonable choices for essential expenses: housing, food, transportation, health care, taxes and child care.
If any results show blank values, that indicates the sample size is too small to illustrate Real Cost Measure results. Per our methodology, estimates with a cell size of greater than 5,000 are assumed to be accurate within +/-1% based on design factor analysis. Cell sizes less than 5,000 are suppressed.
REAL COST MEASURE HOUSEHOLDS BUDGETS:
For information on additional counties or household types, visit United Ways of California – Household Budgets